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Definition of floor manager in US English:

floor manager

noun

1The stage manager of a television production.

‘If I ever stopped to think that I was speaking to more than four cameramen and a floor manager, I would probably be petrified.’

‘He stands on the stage in front of the studio audience, the floor manager counts him in, the audience hold their breath in expectation, waiting to see what this strange man is going to do to make them laugh.’

‘Only 18 months before, I'd been working as a floor manager at an Irish television station, listening to them on the radio, and then suddenly I was in the room with them.’

‘Jones is a freelance floor manager.’

‘Then Smiley, my floor manager, arrives and saves the day.’

‘As a result, the floor manager decided to ask the audience again to make sure mobiles were switched off.’

‘He got over his thespian aspirations pretty quickly and signed up to the infant Radio station as a vision-mixer, then a cameraman and floor manager.’

‘By the time we had finished speaking, the floor manager can attest to this, we had been through two boxes of Kleenex.’

‘Ted was my floor manager and then he directed some stuff before he left.’

‘Sometimes I'm listening to an answer from a guest, and I'm thinking, this is great stuff and I'll look over the guests shoulder and the floor manager is giving me one minute, and I think man, how am I going to do this?’

‘We however, in Adelaide, were handed them by the floor manager with headphones on, trying desperately to keep out of shot.’

‘Then the floor manager barks over the studio PA, ‘Put the seat back in!’.’

‘And he acts that he's a floor manager, you know, with the earphones.’

‘In the early 1960s Mackenzie moved to London, where he worked at the BBC as an assistant floor manager.’

‘I first met him in the Sixties, when he was a floor manager for Thames Television, and I was an actor.’

‘Twenty people attend, including pundits, commentators, the floor manager, producer and editor.’

2An employee in a large store who supervises other salespeople.

‘Dreaming in the Midwest was frowned upon, unless it was to be something sensible like a floor manager at Wal-Mart.’

‘I called the floor manager over, pointed out the flaws, and offered to take it off him for a generous £100.’

‘The floor manager of another leading call centre adds, ‘This is already being done in cities like Delhi and Mumbai.’’